31 Days of Real Life: Easy Like Sunday Morning (NOT)

31 Days of Real Life: Easy Like Sunday Morning (NOT)

When Lionel Richie sang “Easy like Sunday morning,” he obviously wasn’t referring to a typical family getting ready for church. Not ours, at least. Misplaced clothing, lost shoes, sleepy-headed stragglers, flaring tempers: all this and more fight...
What I Learned from Sara

What I Learned from Sara

Sweet Sara passed on from a life of pain and confinement to one of pure joy and freedom late Saturday evening. (Read my tribute and those of many others here.) In February Sara left a comment on one of my first Camera Phone Friday posts, telling how she always...
Happy First Weekend of Fall!

Happy First Weekend of Fall!

“And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding” ~Daniel 2:21 (Does it feel like fall to you? What’s the weather like in your neck of...

Choose Joy: For Sara

A week ago I learned that my friend and fellow (in)courage author, Sara (or Gitz, as she is affectionately known), won’t be here with us much longer. Sara suffers from a disease with a long, complicated name. She has been homebound for some time, gets sick...
10 Years Later: We Remember

10 Years Later: We Remember

I remember exactly where I was on 9/11/2001 when I heard about the first plane crashing into the World Trade Center. My sixth child was five days old and I existed in that state of sleep deprivation familiar to new mothers. One of my kids gave me the surprising news...
Outward Aging, Inward Renewal today at (in)courage

Outward Aging, Inward Renewal today at (in)courage

“…but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.” ~2 Corinthians 4:16 I’ve always intended to age gracefully. I still feel about 25 on the inside, so I just imagined my outside would reflect it accordingly. Boy, was I wrong. Join me for...

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